Vehicle-fastening for harness.



No. 703,808. Patented July I, I902.

M. McNALLEY.

VEHICLE FASTENING FOB HARNESS.

(Application filed Mar. 5, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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MICHEAL MONALLEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE-FASTENING FOR :HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,808, dated July l, 1902.

I Application filed March 5, 1902. Serial No. 96,788- (No model.)

To all whom it may causewa Be it known that I, MIGHEAL MONALLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Fastenin gs for Harness, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a vehicle-fastening for harness-that is to say, a fastening which may be made in a variety of analogous forms and used in various relations about avehiole-such, for instance, as on singletrees, shafts, and neck-yokes.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a central section through the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the device as viewed from the left of Fig. 1.

A pointed wooden member 1 is provided with a longitudinal head 2 of substantially conical shape and slightly flattened. Upon this head are integrally mounted bosses 3 4:, adjacent to one edge of said head. Mounted upon the opposite edge thereof is anancillary member 5, provided withbosses 6 7, the three last-mentioned parts constituting a T-shaped member. Upon the upper and lower sidesof the head are beads 8 9 and also grooves 10 11, parallel with and adjacent to the respective beads. A pin 12 secures the head 2 in position on the member 1.

My invention is used as follows: A strap A, provided with a slot B, is fitted upon the head in the following manner: The T-shaped member is first inserted through the slot and the strap is bent around into the position indicated in Fig. 1, the raised heads 8 9 serving to hold said strap in the grooves 10 11.

The device may be used for holding traces upon singletrees Y and for holding straps of any kind upon neck-yokes and shafts. Its

'2. A vehicle-fastening for harness,comprising a longitudinal head of substantially conical. shape, said head being provided with oppositelydisposed grooves, cylindrical bosses mounted upon said head adjacent to said grooves, and an ancillary member mounted upon said head and projecting laterally therefrom in a plane substantially at right angles to the general direction of said bosses, said ancillary member being provided with cylindrical bosses parallel with the bosses upon said longitudinal head.

3. Avehicle-fasteningforharness,comprising a longitudinal head of substantially con-' ical form, a pair of grooves disposed upon op-' posite sides of said head, beads disposed adjacent to said grooves, a pair of cylindrical bosses disposed upon opposite sides of said head and immediately adjacent to said grooves, a T-shaped member projecting laterally from one of the edges of said head and provided with bosses, said bosses being substantially in alinement with said beads for the purpose of bending the end of a strap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MIOI-IEAL MONALLEY. Witnesses:

CARL. OTTO,

FRANK FROMMEYER. 

